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Description

This book provides a content-based approach to design workflow which is grounded in the multi-platform reality known as responsive design. Shows how to develop and present designs as HTML/CSS prototypes without having to build a complete static website. Encourages a hands-on approach to designing websites, and challenges designers to get to know the medium for which they are designing. Shows how documentation is created based on design prototypes and with open source tools. In our industry, everything changes quickly, usually for the better. We have more and better tools for creating websites and applications that work across multiple platforms. Oddly enough, design workflow hasn't changed much, and what has changed is often for worse. Old-school workflow is simply not effective on our multiplatform web. Fixed-width Photoshop comps and overproduced wireframes are no longer the way to design for today's multi-platform web. This book provides a practical approach for 'designing in the browser.' It shows how to better manage client expectations and development requirements, and offers a method of design documentation.

Author Biography

Native Californian STEPHEN HAY has been living and working in the Netherlands since 1992, and he's been designing for the web since 1995. His roots as a designer and art director in corporate identity, packaging design, and advertising served as a foundation for his current work as a web design and development strategist through his own user experience consultancy, Zero Interface. Stephen speaks at industry events and writes about CSS, web accessibility, open web standards, and design.